DocumentCode
578975
Title
Environmental and organizational determinants of technology adoption: The cases of RFID in the logistics firms
Author
Tsai, Wei Chen
Author_Institution
Dept. of Inf. Manage., Aletheia Univ., Taipei, Taiwan
fYear
2012
fDate
18-20 July 2012
Firstpage
719
Lastpage
724
Abstract
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), a recently regarded technology, is an appropriate new technology to achieve the goal. This study based environmental and organizational perspectives to explore the adoption determinants of RFID application, in turn, seven constructs were proposed, environmental context as industry competition and external policy support, organizational context includes organization readiness, procedural flexibility and power structure. And the empirical survey was performed that questionnaires were send to 500 Taiwan companies of logistic firms. To use the partial least squares software to perform and verify the research structure proposed. The results of analysis of the survey data are: all paths have significant positive with the RFID adoption model for logistic firms. Thus, we hope the final result is useful to educational circles and practice.
Keywords
least squares approximations; logistics; organisational aspects; radiofrequency identification; service industries; RFID; Taiwan; environmental determinants; external policy support; industry competition; logistics firms; organization power structure; organization procedural flexibility; organization readiness; organizational context; organizational determinants; partial least squares software; radiofrequency identification; technology adoption; Context; Industries; Organizations; Radiofrequency identification; Supply chains; Adoption model; Logistic firms; Radio Frequency Identification;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 2012 7th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location
Singapore
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-2118-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICIEA.2012.6360819
Filename
6360819
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